1 Depois disso o homem conduziu-me para o lado norte, para o pátio externo, e levou-me aos quartos opostos ao pátio do templo e ao muro externo do lado norte.

2 O prédio cuja porta dava para o norte tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento e vinte e cinco metros de largura.

3 Tanto na secção que ficava a dez metros de distância do pátio interno quanto na secção oposta ao piso do pátio externo, havia uma galeria frente à outra nos três andares.

4 Em frente dos quartos havia uma passagem interna com cinco metros de largura e cinqüenta metros de comprimento. Suas portas ficavam no lado norte.

5 Ora, os quartos superiores eram mais estreitos, pois as galerias tomavam mais espaço deles do que dos quartos do andar inferior e médio.

6 Os quartos do terceiro andar não tinham colunas, ao passo que os pátios as tinham. Por isso a área deles era menor do que a dos quartos do andar inferior e o do meio.

7 Havia uma parede externa paralela aos quartos e ao pátio externo; sua extensão era de vinte e cinco metros, em frente dos quartos.

8 A carreira de quartos junto ao pátio interno tinha vinte e cinco metros de comprimento, e a que ficava mais próximo do santuário tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento.

9 Os quartos de baixo tinham entrada pelo lado leste, quando se vem do pátio externo.

10 No lado sul, ao longo do comprimento da parede do pátio externo, adjacentes ao pátio do templo e no lado oposto do muro externo, havia quartos

11 com uma passagem em frente deles. Eram como os quartos do lado norte; tinham o mesmo comprimento e a mesma largura, com saídas e dimensões semelhantes. As portas do lado norte

12 eram semelhantes às portas dos quartos do lado sul. Havia uma entrada no início do corredor paralelo ao muro correspondente que se estendia para leste; e havia uma entrada para os quartos.

13 Depois ele me disse: "Os quartos do norte e do sul que dão para o pátio do templo são os quartos dos sacerdotes, onde os sacerdotes que se aproximam do Senhor comerão as ofertas santíssimas. Ali porão as ofertas santíssimas: as ofertas de cereal, as ofertas pelo pecado e as ofertas pela culpa, pois o local é santo.

14 Assim que os sacerdotes entrarem nos recintos sagrados, só poderão ir para o pátio externo após tirarem as vestes com as quais ministram, pois elas são santas. Porão outras vestes antes de se aproximarem dos lugares reservados para o povo".

15 Quando ele acabou de medir o que havia dentro da área do templo, levou-me para fora pela porta leste e mediu a área em redor:

16 Mediu o lado leste com a vara de medir; e ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros.

17 Mediu o lado norte; ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

18 Mediu o lado sul; e tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

19 Depois ele foi para o lado oeste e o mediu; ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

20 Assim ele mediu a área nos quatro lados. Em torno dela havia um muro de duzentos e cinqüenta metros de comprimento e duzentos e cinqüenta metros de largura, para separar o santo do comum.

1 Then he took me forth unto the outer court, the way toward the north,and brought me unto the chamber which was over against the secluded place and which was over against the enclosing-wall, towards the north.

2 Facing the length of the hundred cubits, was the entrance of the north,and the breadth was fifty cubits:

3 over against the twenty which pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement which pertained to the outer court, was gallery facing gallery, by the thirties;

4 and before the chambers, was a walk ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one cubit,and their entrances were to the north.

5 Now, the highest chambers were shortened, because the galleries took away therefrom more than from the lower or from the middle in structure.

6 For three stories, they were; and had not pillars like the pillars of the courts; for this cause, it differed from the lowest and from the middle, from the ground.

7 And as for the wall that was without. answering to the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the chambers which pertained to the outer court was fifty cubits,and lo! in front of the temple a hundred cubits,

9 And from under these chambers, was the entry from the east when one goeth in by them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east facing the secluded place and facing the enclosing wall, were chambers. n

11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as was their length, so it was their breadth,and all their exits were both according to their regulations, and according to their entrances.

12 And according to the entrances of the chambers which were toward the south, was the entrance at the head of the waythe way in the face of the covered wall, the way toward the east in entering them.

13 Then said he unto me, The chambers of the north the chambers of the south which face the secluded place, they are the holy chambers where the priests who draw near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things; there, shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering and the sin-bearer and the guilt bearer, for the place is holy!

14 When the priests enter them, then shall they not go forth out of the holy place into the outer court, but there, shall they lay their garments wherein they minister for holy they are, and shall put on other garments, and so draw near unto that which pertaineth to the people.

15 And when he had ended the measurings of the inner house, then he brought me forth by way of the gate which looked toward the east, and measured it round about on every side.

16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed,five hundred reeds by the measuring reed round about,

17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed round about.

18 The south side, measured he,five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed.

19 He turned about to the west side,he measured five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed.

20 Toward the four winds, measured he it a wall, had it round about on every side, in length, five hundred, and in breadth five hundred,to make a separation, between the holy and the common.